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100 Leaders: Cohort 1 Projects
Pack 1: Led by Amy Hunter
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amy.hunter8@nhs.net
Our courageous change
Angela Stewart, an Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic (EPAC) Specialist Nurse, commenced a short course in training to perform first trimester ultrasound scanning at Sheffield Hallam University in September 2021.
The aim is that Angela will be the first of many EPAC specialist nurses to undertake the course, creating a team that can run the One Stop EPAC service seven days a week (currently only a five day service) and eventually take the service into the community, away from the acute setting.
Our highlights and challenges
Successful stakeholder meeting
Keen interest to undertake the course from the EPAC specialist nursing team
Working with two different departments (Radiology and Gynae) brought its challenges
Staffing pressuresPoor uptake of patient survey
Our ambition
To create a dedicated One Stop Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic where ladies who are experiencing abnormal symptoms in the first trimester of pregnancy will be triaged, scanned, diagnosed and counselled in one area.
For these patients, it is an extremely distressing and emotional time often involving multiple hospital visits and ultrasound scans and attending multiple departments. These patients and their partners attend for their ultrasound scans and share a waiting area with heavily pregnant antenatal patients.
Our impact on patients, staff and the Trust
• Early pregnancy patients: Improved patient experience, streamline service and continuity of care.
• Antenatal patients: Every pregnant lady has the right to feel happy and excited about their pregnancy scans.
• Staff: Removing emotional challenges with co-localisation.
• Trust: Striving for excellence and working towards CQC outstanding, more patients will book with us.
• Trust: Relocating EPAC scans will free up capacity within Women’s Ultrasound for additional workload of Saving Babies Lives V2.
